{"id":22213,"date":"2022-11-13T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22213"},"modified":"2022-11-13T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T17:27:50","slug":"commit-or-let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22213","title":{"rendered":"Commit or Let It Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started this blog back in 2007. I haven&#8217;t been celebrating my blogiversaries lately, but this year, in April, was my 15th. The fact that I still write posts, however sporadically, after fifteen years is impressive. Most people don&#8217;t keep up their blogs even a fraction of that time, sadly. I don&#8217;t know which is worse: a blog that starts out with a few really strong posts and then just stops, or a middling blog that goes on for a few years and then just stops. Either way, the stopping is the problem. It&#8217;s human nature to wish for anything that is good, or even just familiar, to go on forever and ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;m proud of myself for keeping the blog alive all these years, always coming back, keeping it on life support. But, the blog is not free, and once again I find myself wondering if I&#8217;m really getting my money&#8217;s worth out of it. This year year has been particularly lean in terms of posts. Maybe blogging just isn&#8217;t my thing anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, as they say, use it or lose it. My blog hosting auto-renewed at the end of October, which means I&#8217;m paid up through next October whether I blog or not. So I&#8217;m going to make a deal with myself now. Life support is not the same as living&#8211;commit to the blog by writing at least a post per week (not a big ask), or let it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog back in 2007. I haven&#8217;t been celebrating my blogiversaries lately, but this year, in April, was my 15th. The fact that I still write posts, however sporadically, after fifteen years is impressive. Most people don&#8217;t keep &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22236,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions\/22236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}